The enhancement Shaman has come a long way in this new patch from Blizzard for World of Warcraft. Known as a hybrid class, the Shaman class is a class which can be a caster, healer or melee class. The three specs restoration which is healing, elemental which is for casting spells for damage and enhancement used for melee damage are what is available to the Shaman.
   We have found that playing Shaman as enhancement has become a lot more fun and deadly since the launch of Echoes of Doom patch 3.0.2. The new additions to the enhancement spec that we use include maelstrom weapon, feral spirit, improved storm strike, and earthen power, while there are other additions like static shock that improves your lightning shield and strength of earth totem, which has been made to include the buff from grace of air totem. But most of these new additions have been added to improve the survivability of the enhancement Shaman and most people would agree survivability was a much bigger problem for enhancement before this patch.
   Maelstrom weapon is a major improvement on survivability, which gives the Shaman a chance to stack this talent 5 times with each damaging melee attack reducing cast time of heals, lightning casts and as soon as you hit level 75 in the upcoming expansion lava burst by 20% each stack. Anyone that has played the shaman before the patch knows when you were getting low in health it was not so easy to get that heal off when someone was trying to take you out due to cast knock back from damage being taken.
   And also feral spirit is a great improvement on survivability. When you cast feral spirit you have 2 loyal ghostly wolves at your side with there own pet bar ready to do some of your dirty work for you. These wolves can attack players and bash them on your command stunning them for a couple seconds. They also have twin howl which will heal you for the damage they do and spirit walk which allows you to sprint for 12 seconds. Feral spirit has a 3 minute cool down.
   It is great to have improved storm strike and earthen power. Improved storm strike is capable of reducing the cool down of storm strike by two seconds and increases the charges by two as well. Earthen power if specced all the way into it will remove all snare effects from you and nearby party members which will save you from having to use your Player versus Player trinket early. A couple of small modifications to the shaman include being able to use Shamanistic Rage while stunned and Anticipation also reduces the duration of disarm affects.
   In a nutshell, the new improvements to the enhancement specced Shaman have made them much more lethal to other classes. So if you're not an enhancement Shaman, watch your back while traveling through Azeroth, you might just have some payback coming.